Menu Card, Portfolio of Menu Cards and Letters Relating to the Khayyam Club

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Menu Card, Portfolio of Menu Cards and Letters Relating to the Khayyam Club

Artist James McBey (Newburgh, Scotland, 1883 - 1959)

AssociatedAssociated with The Omar Khayyam Club

AssociatedAssociated with Ryland Adkins

AssociatedAssociated with Edward Heron-Allen

AssociatedAssociated with Walter Willson Cobbett

AssociatedAssociated with Ian D. Colvin

AssociatedAssociated with Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (London, England, 1857 - 1940)

AssociatedAssociated with Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (Fort George, Inverness, Scotland, 1856 - 1943)

AssociatedAssociated with Sir Israel Gollancz (London, England, 1863 - 1930)

AssociatedAssociated with Frank Kingsley Griffith

AssociatedAssociated with Philip Guedalla

AssociatedAssociated with Percy Greenbank

AssociatedAssociated with Martin Hardie (London, England, 1875 - 1952)

AssociatedAssociated with Edgar Horne

AssociatedAssociated with Bohun Lynch

AssociatedAssociated with D. Storrar Meldrum

AssociatedAssociated with Sir David Murray (Glasgow, Scotland, 1849 - 1933)

AssociatedAssociated with Harold Nicolson

AssociatedAssociated with Professor R H A Plimmer

AssociatedAssociated with George Pritchard

AssociatedAssociated with John Quiller Rowett

AssociatedAssociated with Michael Sadleir

AssociatedAssociated with Sir Malcolm Seton

Date1924

Object NameMenu Card

Mediumpaper

ClassificationsMcBey

DimensionsClosed: 21.5 x 16.2cm
Open: 21.5 x 32.4cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1988 by Mrs Marguerite McBey.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG008362.7

Keywords

About MeMenu Card, within the Portfolio of Menu Cards and Letters Relating to the Khayyam Club. The frontispiece on the menu card is a drawing by James McBey, of a man and a woman drinking and smiling outside.

The dinner was held on 3 April 1924, at "Pagini's", and present guests included several notable British politicians, barristers, artists and poets, and scientists, such as:

Sir Ryland Adkins (barrister)
Edward Heron Allen (translated the works of Omar Khayyam; scientist; speaker of Turkic languages)
Ellis Barker
Dr. Barton
Dr. F.E. Beddard
Dr. William Bligh
W. Perkins Bull
W.W. Cobbett (Walter Willson Cobbett, violinist and writer)
S.B. Collett
Ian D. Colvin (who penned the Drinking Song on the reverse of the menu card)
Sir Alfred Cope (senior civil servant)
Norman Davey
Alfred Duche
Father Flynn
A Forestier
Sir George Frampton (sculptor)
J.A. Gardner
Professor Sir Israel Gollancz (Shakespeare scholar)
Percy Greenbank (lyricist)
F. Kingsley Griffith (barrister and politician)
Philip Guedalla (writer and politician)
Martin Hardie (artist)
John Henderson (politician)
Edgar Horne (businessman and Unionist politician)
Arthur Hutchinson
Joseph James
Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane (surgeon)
Bohun Lynch (historian)
James McBey
R.H. Marsh
D. Storrar Meldrum
Sir David Murray (painter)
The Hon. Harold Nicolson (diplomat and writer)
Professor R.H.A. Plimmer
George Pritchard
W. Pett Ridge (author)
W.P. Robins
Arthur R. Ropes (also known as Adrian Ross; lyricist)
John Quiller Rowett (businessman - spirits industry; financed the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the Antarctic)
Michael Sadleir (novelist and book collector)
Sir Malcolm Seton
Ralph Straus
C.J. Waldron
W.P. Watt
George Whale
Edmund Wimperis (architect)
John Woodhouse (Anglican Suffragan Bishop)

This object is part of an archive that belonged to Marguerite McBey. As a result of her generosity, Aberdeen Art Gallery holds the largest archive of James McBey's work, including prints, drawings, sketchbooks, oil paintings and memorabilia such as this menu card.